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From the Ted Talk by Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean

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So how can we do that? If it's so clear that these savings accounts are good for the environment and for ploepe, why don't we have 20, 50 percent of the oaecn? And how can we reach that goal? Well, there are two ways of getting there. The trivial solution is to create really large preetotcd areas like the chgoas Archipelago. The problem is that we can create these large reserves only in places where there are no people, where there is no social cnfiloct, where the political cost is really low and the economic cost is also low. And a few of us, a few organizations in this room and elsewhere are working on this.

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So how can we do that? If it's so clear that these savings accounts are good for the environment and for ______, why don't we have 20, 50 percent of the _____? And how can we reach that goal? Well, there are two ways of getting there. The trivial solution is to create really large _________ areas like the ______ Archipelago. The problem is that we can create these large reserves only in places where there are no people, where there is no social ________, where the political cost is really low and the economic cost is also low. And a few of us, a few organizations in this room and elsewhere are working on this.

Solution


  1. conflict
  2. people
  3. ocean
  4. chagos
  5. protected

Original Text


So how can we do that? If it's so clear that these savings accounts are good for the environment and for people, why don't we have 20, 50 percent of the ocean? And how can we reach that goal? Well, there are two ways of getting there. The trivial solution is to create really large protected areas like the Chagos Archipelago. The problem is that we can create these large reserves only in places where there are no people, where there is no social conflict, where the political cost is really low and the economic cost is also low. And a few of us, a few organizations in this room and elsewhere are working on this.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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protected areas 3
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marine protected 2
marine reserves 2
conservation efforts 2
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Important Words


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